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Some thoroughly creative people in the zone this afternoon Thank you all Please find attached the modified version (probably a little long for the time I've got, but I think a good discussion starter) Ed Self-Analysis Please find below a list of practices that we'd normally expect students to be doing by now. Please have a read of them and talk to the person next to you about how you feel you are doing. Once you have discussed the list, please decide on two areas where you would like to improve and discuss how you are going to do so. Key ideas How are you doing? Turning up for all lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials (hey we thought we'd start easy) Organising yourself. Both time management (deadlines and day to day) and organising your workspace, bag etc. Had a good look around the library and found where useful resources are Referencing - have you started thinking about doing it properly? Do you know where to get info? Pre-reading before each lecture & seminar Making notes in lectures & seminars Joining in discussions in seminars Re-reading & tidying up your notes afterwards Finding out how to contact your tutors & additional study support Logging into NOW to make yourself familiar with useful content How are you going to use university email? Have you found anyone you could set up your own study group with? Ed Foster, Learning Development Team, LLR, Nottingham Trent University, (t) 0115 848 8203 From: Foster, Ed Sent: 19 October 2011 14:38 To: learning development in higher education network Subject: Workshop on What's different about learning at University Hello all I'm running workshop shortly 'what's different about learning at university?'. I've done a lecture along the same lines for a number of years, but never done it as a workshop. I was going to frame one of the discussions around actions and activities that would be good practice for students 3 - 4 weeks into term. The list below might be a bit basic, but I thought it might give students something to discuss. I thought I'd throw it over to you fine folks. Anyone feeling creative this afternoon? Have I missed anything obvious? Ed Key ideas How are you doing? Turning up for all lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials (hey we thought we'd start easy) Knowing when your deadlines are (for all your assignments) Deciding what books you are going to buy Pre-reading before each lecture & seminar Making notes in lectures & seminars Joining in discussions in seminars Re-reading & tidying up your notes afterwards Finding out how to get hold of your tutors Logging into the VLE to make yourself familiar with useful content How are you going to deal with email? Ed Foster Learning Development Team Libraries & Learning Resources Nottingham Trent University, Burton St, Nottingham, NG1 4BU t 0115 848 8203 DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice.